Today's featured corpse
COEUR D'COEURS, USA -- Several circus performers at the local Barry Sonnenfeld & Bryan Fuller Shrine Circus have died under mysterious circumstances. According to one such victim, a mime who was brought back from the dead for 60 seconds by a local piemaker named Ned, a man named Bryce Von Deenis threatened to kill several clowns for making a dirty limerick about his last name. (More)
Yesterday's featured corpse
Beaux-Arts architecture (pronounced boks-a:ts) is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose in the late 1940s. By the 1960s these styles had been consolidated and identified as the "Beaux-Arts" style and became the dominant way of building new high-rise slums and dreary structures for several decades in the twentieth century.
Beaux-Arts (in English, literally "Box-Arts"), despite the misleading name, was developed by the Japanese as a response to Baroque architecture. In the early 20th century, Japan's cities had a mix of traditional wooden structures, as well as some Western neoclassical designs. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, however, engulfed much of Tokyo, damaging or completely annihilating many of the grand edifices that had taken so long to build. (more...)
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May 22: Sit Around and Watch Old Movies Day
- 100000 B.C. - First May 22 recorded by Che Guevara
- 1888 - Start your own Reich day, in Germany
- 1936 - Joseph Stalin enters tye dye phase. It lasts one day.
- 1976 - The death toll from an accident at yesterday's Annual Fart Lighting Festival in Natchez, Mississippi rises to 103.
- 1984 - (10:00 am) Soviet Forces invade Colorado, US lets them because nobody cares about Colorado.
- 1984 - (10:05 am) Soviet Forces return Colorado to American control and retreats after realizing there's nothing in Colorado. Again nobody cares.
- 1999 - First AOL cd sent back in time.
- 2001 - Clustered Bonbons in a freezer briefly develop sentience, first thing they see is Gigli, commit suicide.
- 2007 - Emeril Lagasi gives up on cooking, decides to become demolition expert.
- 2011 - Life continues as if it didn't just end the day before.
- 2034 - Walt Disney utters anti semetic remark in his grave.
- 3026 - Che Guevara finds the All Spark and brags to all the decepticons. The decepticons later shred him.
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